November 2001 Archives
IE Favorites to XML
Over at Aaronland there is a great Perl module and a script to convert IE...
More Strangeness
Another interesting thing is the wacky search terms that people used to find my site...
Odd Referers
I’ve been getting some weird refering sites recently. I don’t get why the International Atomic...
Actual Size, But It Seems Much Bigger
Seen on the box for a 15 foot artificial Christmas tree: "Contents May Differ...
Married Bloggers
On a related note, Erin and Shawn are married and both have blogs. Both blogs...
Weblog romance
Charles and Denise both have Weblogs. What’s so interesting about that? Well, they’ve been dating...
Lights
I spent much of the day installing Christmas lights. Our house gets a bigger and...
RSSBlog 0.92
RSSBlog 0.92 RSSBlog has been updated to version 0.92. One new feature is that it...
Freedom
One thing I am thankful for is our freedom as Americans. But in the wake...
Addiction
If you are "addicted to cold turkey," how do you quit?...
Happy Thanksgiving
For those of you that live in the US, Happy Thanksgiving from my family. Heck,...
Charity Junk mail
24-hour drive-thru: "Toys for hurting children in San Diego County." Says Julie: "They want toys...
New Monitor
About the only good thing about working for a company that goes under is you...
Working from home
Jim Roepcke has a great stream of consciousness article about working at home. I worked...
Internet Radio
Despite a MP3 collection that is approaching 30 Gigs, I still like to listen to...
TCP/IP for children
The reader reviews of The Story About Ping are hilarious. [via Elegant Hack]...
Weird spam
And here I thought the spam I get is weird. Cam’s spam is stranger....
Wayback Bookmarklets renamed
New names for the Wayback Machine Bookmarklets: Latest Wayback Archive and Go Wayback....
Fun With Spammers
Michael Fraase wrote about his experience with spammers, using one spammer as a representative example....
New Server
The server has been moved. It’s going to take a day or two for various...
Moving
I’m moving the server that hosts kalsey.com. I probably won’t post any new entries here...
Spam Grammar
"Holiday are near, eliminate your debt" If the spammers can’t use decent grammar, why is...
The Gratuits
A discussion on the Webloger’s User Group email list brought up the question of what...
$5 Million Used Bra
Even though it is encrusted with diamonds, if I were paying $12.5 million for a...
RSSBlog update
RSSBlog has been updated. The HTML tags that are used to configure your newsfeed are...
New RSS feed
This blog now has an RSS newsfeed. If you use a news aggregator like Radio...
TV compession
Apparently there is a device that TV stations can use to shorten a TV show...
Pen usability
Robert Scoble has a great point about usability. "[Don Norman] hates the desktop PC and...
Free ebooks
Qvadis has created a library with over 5000 free ebooks for Palm OS....
Taliban fruits
DAWN: Taliban stocking up on fruit: traders. I guess it’s time to bomb the restrooms,...
Auction pricing
An article in NewScientist describes the results of a three-year study into pricing factors in...
More XSL tips
On the subject of XSL, Web Developer’s Virtual Library has a huge list of resources,...
XSL Introduction
SitePoint has a decent introductory tutorial on XSL. They give a sample document and walk...
IIS lockdown
Businesses running IIS as a Web server need to have effective procedures to secure the...
Mr. Showbiz gone
"After six years... Mr. Showbiz has retired. We’ve had a lot of fun, and we...
Emma for sale
I’m selling Emma, my 67 MGB. I’ll put some pictures and a description of her...
CDNow privacy
CDNow’s new privacy policy is simple and to the point. instead of using legalese, they...
Kid jokes
I remember when I could say anything silly to my kids and they would laugh....
Goth or not
Another Hot Or Not knockoff:Am I Goth Or Not?...